Arianna Huffington launches group blog, Huffington Post, with former AOL exec Kenneth Lerer and MIT grad Jonah Peretti. The move gets mixed reaction, given her visible role on the politics and celebrity stages.
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HuffPo wins Webby Award
Huffington Post wins a 2006 Webby Award for Political Blog.
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HuffPo dabbles in venture capital funding
Huffington Post receives $5 million investment from venture capital firms like Softbank Capital and Greycroft Partners, to be used for business expansion. Softbank executive Eric Hippeau would eventually become CEO of HuffPo.
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HuffPo says it's going indy
HuffPo hires Newsweek journalist Melinda Henneberger as political editor and announces plans to start independent reporting, in addition to opinion and aggregated news content.
HuffPo rewards top commenters
Huffington Post announces that the users who leave the most comments on HuffPo content will become featured bloggers for the site.
HuffPo nets another Webby Award
Huffington Post receives another Webby Award for Political Blog.
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Reports announce that Arianna Huffington has raised $15 million in fundraising from investors for even further expansion of Huffington Post. HuffPo would eventually raise a total of $35 million in capital investments.
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Arianna Huffington announces a new nonprofit fund to support investigative journalism by HuffPo staff and freelancers.
HuffPo reporter gets White House press pass
Huffington Post causes a stir when staff reporter Nico Pitney is called on during a press conference by President Obama to ask a seemingly staged question.
HuffPo Denver launches
Huffington Post launches its Denver site, keeping in its recent tradition of hyperlocal news.
HuffPo gets a new president and revenue officer
Huffington Post hires former Yahoo and AOL exec, Greg Coleman, as President and Chief Revenue Officer. Coleman was let go from AOL soon after Tim Armstrong took over as Chairman and CEO.
Huffington Post starts selling placement ads within comments section of articles and includes sponsored messages in the site's live Twitter feed.
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HuffPo Twitter site launches
Huffington Post launches a Twitter-specific site, as its "latest integration of social media." Some say it's HuffPo's way of directing content to social media users and competing with Facebook.
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HuffPo tackles comment backlog
Huffington Post acquires Adaptive Semantics to help moderate the more than 100,000 comments posted to its site daily.
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HuffPo posts first annual profit
Huffington Post execs report an annual profit of $30 million and say they hope to triple their sales gain in the coming years.
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AOL buys HuffPo
AOL acquires Huffington Post for $315 million; Arianna Huffington takes charge of editorial content as president and editor-in-chief of Huffington Post Media Group. As of February 2011, the Huffington Post is ranked 31 for website traffic in the U.S.
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